Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.